I'm confused... what exactly did these folks do to make ends meet before Big Gov handed them that 90 million dollar taxpayer-funded meal ticket?**********
FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Bob Rae is the new "Grey Owl", pining for a life and culture that never really existed except in the minds of paternalistic apologists. If I recall my history, it was feast or famine - and very little in between. It's way past time for the original people of Canada to join us and live successful, healthy lives in places more suitable to accommodate life."And...
"We need to send in a third party manager to audit the LPC books and discover where the $40 million ADSCAM dollars went, bet Chief Bob won't be too willing to let the third party manager come in either."**********
THANK YOU COMMENT MODERATION:
"Dick Cheyne(sic) doesn't even have a heart anymore he has an electric heart without a pulse. Literally he's a Zombie, Dick Cheney is an anti-christ Zombie he's got no heartbeat, think of that, is that not in the scriptures? A man who walks with no heartbeat and feels no remorse for the millions of deaths."I'll spare you the rest of that particular quasi-coherent, pseudo-religious rant.
You go back to occupying mom's basement, nonny.
And then, of course, there's...
"The natives were not this way when the Europeans landed, so it isn't like it's part of their culture, as you would like us to believe."What you fail to mention, nonny... is what they were like... travelling bands of near stone-age scavengers, continually preying on each other... capturing women & children for slaves & practicing cannabalism as the mood took them.
There was very little romance or nobility associated with their lifestyle. Kevin Costner aside, a subsistence hunter-gatherer, in so many ways, is simply the middle age equivalent of a bunch of vagrants tunneling into the urban landscape.
The choice here, is to continue to live in a feudal reservation system, in abject poverty, addiction & misery... or, like so many, for example, in the Asian community, to assimilate and prosper.
Oh yeah, one more thing, nonny. Your comments have a much better chance of being published when they're not bookended by posting multiple instances of "Heil Harper" in the comments here. Twisting my words will also get you an automatic exclusion.
You wanna demonstrate your ignorance, take it back on over to Rabble.ca... they'll love you longtime.